Anican (a free anime and tokusatsu centric newspaper) has published the results of its extensive 2008 Reader’s poll awards.

The number of categories included is somewhat overwhelming, but obviously Macross F pulled out an excellent showing by receiving the #1 spots in both the Anime / Tokusatsu and the Overall Grand Award categories.

There are almost too many awards presented here to list, so here is a selection of some of the more interesting categories:

You might want to switch the name order on Hiroshi Kamiya and Fukuyama Jun to keep it consistent, since it looks like you’re doing this by Western name order. And it looks like 悠一 to me as far as which Nakamura it is. Or were you just trolling?

Go figure there’s no one like Hisakawa Aya, Orikasa Fumiko, Hayashibara Megumi, (ry, but I’m slightly surprised at the lack of Tanaka Rie or Kugyuu being in the top five female seiyuu. Then again, seeing Mizuki Nana being in a top seiyuu related poll that doesn’t have anything to do with her singing abilities makes me wwww and realize just how mainstream this poll is. Ah, oh well. At least Yukarin beat the dekobitch.

Which tells us that Anican’s readership is probably composed primarily of mecha fans whose series of choice is Macross and whose favourite VA is Yui Horie. If you look at Animage, Newtype etc. though then it’s all about Gundam and Code Geass followed by Macross, Haruhi, Lucky Star etc. and for VA’s it’s Jun Fukuyama, Mamoru Miyano, Kamiya Hiroshi and Yukana in whatever they are doing.

Personally I’d like to see the magazines do a meta poll where they get all the readers to submit their preferences into one big pool so that we can see what the overall otaku preferences are. Oh that and publish the damn statistics like total votes cast and the number of votes cast for each entrant. No pie chart equivalent no trusty trusty the results on my part.

It’s a Free Magazine…how reliable can the ‘readers poll’ be? I could be the same group of fans voting ‘how many times’?

I’d like to see something a bit more scientific or metered out. If what’s being licensed to other countries or becomes popular has any say I’d think “Code Geass”, “Death Note” & Haruhi would be more prominent.